December 15, 2014
Nick Bunkley

When Alan Mulally unveiled the Ford Sync infotainment system nearly eight years ago, no other automaker had anything like it. And no one had ever heard of an iPhone.

But Mulally's push to put Ford Motor Co. on the leading edge of in-car technology later backfired with a glitchy, confusing upgrade to Sync known as MyFord Touch, and now Ford is toning down that aspiration as it works to undo the damage.

It's burying the MyFord Touch name and swapping out Microsoft Corp., its partner on Sync from the start, for a BlackBerry-based system from Panasonic, which developed Chrysler Group's well-liked system called Uconnect.

 

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